NY Next Generation ELA 1SL5
The Standard
Create or utilize existing visual displays to support descriptions to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings.
New York State Next Generation English Language Arts Learning Standards
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students create or use visual displays to support descriptions and clarify ideas, thoughts, or feelings. They connect each visual detail to spoken meaning.
What Mastery Looks Like
- The student selects or makes a relevant picture, chart, or object display and refers to it while speaking. The visual adds useful clarity.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may choose decorative pictures or show a visual without explaining it. They may include details unrelated to the description.
How to Assess It
- Ask students to describe a familiar event with a drawing or existing visual and point to three details that clarify their ideas or feelings.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Draw a familiar place and label details to mention aloud.
Ask students what the visual makes clearer.
Play Visual Description Match.
Use a photo to describe a class event.
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Related Standards
- 6SL5
Include digital media and/or visual displays in presentations to clarify information and emphasize and enhance central ideas or themes.
- 5SL5
Include digital media and/or visual displays in presentations to emphasize and enhance central ideas or themes.
- KSL5
Create and/or utilize existing visual displays to support descriptions.
- 2SL5
Include digital media and/or visual displays in presentations to clarify or support ideas, thoughts, and feelings.
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